Alëna Korolëva



Sound

Night Creatures of the Little Lakes
Premonitions
Marble Route
Fracture Resistance
Accidental Wilderness
Random City
Shadows of Mtatsminda

Agora
Miscellaneous tracks


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Sound works

Premonitions, radio work, 29 min. Commission work for Radiophrenia Glasgow, broadcast in August 2023. New edition is scheduled for a cassette release on the Form of Minutiae label in February 2024.

Moving Marble, soundtrack for the exhibition of Robert Monaghan's visual art at the Castle of Evoramonte in Portugal. Exhibition was opened on September 2, 2023.

Marble Route, radio work, 45 min. Broadcast on Framework Radio on April 16th, 2023

Fracture Resistance, field recordings based composition, 16 min. Released as a part of framework:seasonal ::: issue #12 compilation on Framework Editions label.
Broadcast within Decay program on CJSW Radio, Calgary

Inverted Mountains
Field recordings based composition, made at the Obras Portugal Art Residency, October 2022.

Accidental Wilderness, CD + digital album. Released August 15, 2022 on Ryoanji Records label (Norwich, UK).

Tracks from the album were included in programs and mixes
  • Framework Radio - framework: #821
  • Punctum Radio (Prague, Czech Republic), Symproms of Evidence, program by members of  Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies
  • New Adventures in Sound Art program for the World’s Listening Day.

Random City, radio work, 45 min. Released on Framework Radio on 01.24.2021

Broadcast on {openradio} as a part of the Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #BURN program
Broadcast as a framework:afield program on
  • london, uk ::: resonance 104.4fm
  • lisbon, pt ::: radio zero
  • utrecht, nl ::: concertzender
  • porto, pt ::: radio manobras
  • hudson valley, us ::: wave farm radio + wgxc 90.7fm
  • tsouth devon, uk ::: soundart radio 102.5fm
  • brighton, uk ::: resonance extra
  • helsinki, fi ::: korppiradio
  • ulm, de ::: radio free 102.6fm
  • brussels, be ::: radio campus 92.1fm
  • santa barbara, us ::: kcsb 91.9fm
  • coimbra, pt ::: rádio universidade de coimbra 109.7fm
  • canela, br ::: rádio contato
  • vancouver, us ::: radio nouspace

Broadcast on KXCI 91.3FM Tucson AZ as a part of Elysian Fields program.

Presented within a framework of the international conference and transdiciplinary festival
Field Sound Recordings: Music, Speech, Landscape
October 5–15, 2021
St. Petersburg Sound Museum
Ground Solyanka Gallery, Moscow

Broadcast on Radiophrenia Glasgow, a festival exploring current trends in sound and transmission arts. 7 February 2022
Shadows of Mtatsminda, cassette + digital album. Released December 4, 2020 on Szara Reneta label (Bustryk, Poland).

Tracks from the album were included in programs and mixes
  • Cashmere Radio as a part of Eastern Daze #31 Szara Reneta label special
  • Polish Radio Kapitał - Tapes Matter: Szara Reneta Field Recordings Mix
  • Framework Radio - framework: afield #741
  • A Closer Listen - Abby Lee Tee’s mix ‘young frogs & golden lakes’
  • CIUT.FM, Toronto - Electric Sense
  • Community Radio Tbilisi / Common Waves as a part of Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, October 2020
Agora, CD + digital album. Released November 11, 2020 on LOM label (Bratislava, Slovakia).

Tracks from the album were included in programs of
Framework Radio - framework #725
CIUT.FM, Toronto - Electric Sense
Air Show, field recording track.
Winner of the Sound of the Year Awards 2021 in the category of "Most Unpleasant Sound" 
Whispering Ice, field recording track.
Broadcast as a part of BEAST FEaST 2021: Sonic Dispatches, programme by Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre

Broadcast on November 12th, 2021 as a part of As If Radio program, a collaborative radio space created in response to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow.

Part of the program by Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies, broadcast on December 28, 2021 on Radio Punctum (Prague, Czech Republic).
Duck Tales, field recording composition.
Broadcast on Community Radio Tbilisi/Common Waves as a part of Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, October 2020.
Old Tram's Song (Tatra T3), field recording composition.
Broadcast on CIUT.FM, Toronto in Electric Sense program.


Curated film programs
  • In Memory of the Future for Message to Man IFF 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • The Screen Touches Back for Message to Man IFF 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Evidence of the Evidence for Conversalon, Toronto, Canada, 2019
  • Destinations. Selections from Kinodot Experimental Film Festival for Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada, 2019
  • Observing the Observer for Message to Man IFF 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Selection from Kinodot EFF for KinoArt, Galerie TIC, Brno, Czech Republic, 2018
  • Selection from Kinodot EFF at Cinema House, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018
  • Chinese Ghosts: Contemporary Independent
    Documentary Cinema from China     for Message to Man IFF 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Glitch Docs for Message to Man IFF 2016, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 30 Years of Animation, Royal College of Art (co-curated with Tim Webb) for Message to Man IFF 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • How to Eat Your Apple: New Animation from South Korea, and retrospective of Eric Oh for Message to Man IFF 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Synesthesia: music videos program and live animation performances with VJ Suave for Message to Man IFF 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia


Short films

Wax Museum, 10 minutes, 2019.
In collaboration with Mike Hoolboom.

Norman Award for Best Film, International Competition, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2020
Screenings: A Space Gallery, Toronto, 2019; Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida, 2019; Revolutions Per Minute Festival, 2020, Boston; Experiments in Cinema, New Mexico, US; Rencontres Festival: Louvre Museum, Paris, 2021, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2021.
Face Value, 4 minutes, 2019.
Screenings: Gimli Film Festival, Manitoba, Canada; Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, New Mexico, US.
Double Thing, 14 minutes, 2018.
Colourmorphosis, 23 minutes, 2009.
No Future, 13 minutes, 2007.
10 rubles, 10 minutes, 2006.


Graphic design
Rebecca Garrett: Search, book, published by Conversalon in 2020.
B.H. Yael: Family States, book, published by Conversalon in 2021.

Posters and trailers for Experimental Film Festival Kinodot and International Film Festival Message to Man.


Education
MA - St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and TV, faculty of screen arts.

Employment
  • 2011-2020 a member of the selection committee for the international competition and curator of special programs for Message to Man IFF, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • From 2012 co-founder and curator of Experimental Film Festival Kinodot, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Freelance video editor, photographer, translator, graphic designer

Other
  • October 2021 - Jury member of Tacoma International Film Festival, short documentaries competition.